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Important English Questions for SSC CGL
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an error.
Neetu have been / waiting for me / since 10 o’clock / in the morning.
- Neetu have been
- in the morning
- since 10 o’clock
- waiting for me
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
Her dog can climb under the fence.
- Over
- Sink
- Behind
- Beneath
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Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the given sentence.
The village beggars, no longer ill at ease in the gathering of gliterring dignitaries, sat in their assigned rows and joked with vegetarian Brahmin apprentices.
- assigned
- apprentices
- beggars
- gliterring
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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The company’s board of directors will announce the financial results at the annual meeting tomorrow.
- The financial results will have been announced by the company’s board of directors at the annual meeting tomorrow.
- The financial results are being announced by the company’s board of directors at the annual meeting tomorrow.
- The company’s board of directors announced the financial results at the annual meeting tomorrow.
- The financial results will be announced by the company’s board of directors at the annual meeting tomorrow.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence.
- The participants of the competition are waiting for their turn curiously.
- The participants of the competition has been waiting for their turn curiously.
- A participants of the competition is waiting for their turn curiously.
- The participants of the competition is waiting for their turn curiously
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence.
Henry is so servile that other people take advantage of him.
- Arrogant
- Sheepish
- Bickering
- Cunning
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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A thing fit to eat.
- Eligible
- Digestible
- Curable
- Edible
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Lily-livered
- Brave
- Comical
- Not brave
- Naughty
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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Zealous
- Enthusiastic
- Detached
- Apathetic
- Indifferent
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Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined word in the given sentence.
She had an ability to persuade others.
- halt
- suppress
- outrage
- impress
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Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
We must remember that what we teach our children is what we inculcate in them.
- endanger
- inspire
- instil
- import
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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
He won’t receive any better choice than this from anywhere.
- Any better choice won’t be received by him than this from anywhere.
- Any better choice wouldn’t have received by him than this from anywhere.
- Any better choice shouldn’t be received by him than this from anywhere.
- Any better choice won’t have been be received by him than this from anywhere
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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Feeble
- Unheedful
- Strong
- Weak
- Baneful
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Select the correct spelling of the underline word.
They denied having any associasion with the terrorists.
- asociation
- asocciation
- assosiation
- association
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
Pooja tried to explain the problem, but soon she tied herself up in knots.
- Be forced to explain your actions and (probably) punished
- Become very confused when you are trying to explain something
- Make no progress in an argument or discussion
- Won’t modify an opinion or agree to even small changes that another person wants
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
In Bihar and Central India, in particular, every district had smelters that used local deposits of ore to produce iron which was widely used for the manufacture of implements and tools of daily use.
The smelting was done by men while women worked on the bellows, pumping air that kept the charcoal burning.
But iron smelting in India was extremely common till the end of the nineteenth century.
Production of Wootz steel required a highly specialised technique of refining iron
- ACDB
- DCAB
- BCDA
- CBDA
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
- He repeated the experiment, increasing the amount until he had weighed up to a thousand pounds.
- During the spring of 1717, the iron foundries in a remote district were often visited by a thin, middle-aged man with a notebook.
- Three cauldrons were next prepared under his directions.
- He would weigh out two pounds of iron, have them heated till they were red-hot and then weigh them again.
- BDAC
- ABDC
- BCAD
- CABD
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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
She is _________ a peacock in the blue satin saree.
- very beautiful as
- so beautiful as
- as beautiful as
- beautiful like
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.The top band is made of saffron, which symbolises power and courage.
B.The constituent assembly adopted our national flag, Tiranga, which means tricolour, on 22 July 1947.
C.As a symbol of nationalism and freedom, it is fashioned from khadi, which is domestically spun Indian cotton.
D.It features three horizontal stripes that are all the same width.
- CBAD
- CBDA
- BCDA
- BDCA
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Select the most appropriate homonym to fill in the blank.
The hunter dogs followed the hyena’s ________.
- sense
- scent
- cense
- cents
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Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
The boys and the teacher wants to win.
- wants to won
- want to won
- want win
- want to win
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
He was compelled by everyone to join the group.
- Demur
- Obscured
- Confessed
- Induced
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To kick the bucket
- To be ill
- Be sad
- Be happy
- To die
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Identify and correct the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the given sentence.
The Collector paid floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi after hosting the flag.
- floaral
- stateu
- trebutes
- hoisting
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
Do you know the old adage ‘the show must go on’?
- Misconstruction
- Rebuke
- Dare
- Addiction
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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
She reminds me always that I ________ to be a little more careful.
- had
- have
- must
- has
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word given in brackets to fill in the blank.
Mr. Khanna is quite ___________(callous) towards the victims of earthquake.
- rationalistic
- unsympathetic
- sympathetic
- nondiplomatic
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up and named P, Q, R, S. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
(S1) Newspapers, especially of the popular variety, aim to do two things: to inform and to entertain.
(P) Entertainment may be principally found in the centre pages of the newspaper in some of the feature articles and in some local news stories.
(Q) The principal aim of the short news report on the front pages is to inform.
(R) Most newspapers are published daily, and the news reporters must make sure that they have up-to-the minute news.
(S) In their news reports they will aim to create a sense of immediacy, to convey the impression that they have ‘rushed’ the news to the reader and ‘that the information contained is the very latest.’
(S6) Reporters also wish to create a sense of authenticity, that is, that their news is accurate and genuine.
- Q, S, R, P
- R, P, S, Q
- S, R, P, Q
- P, Q, R, S
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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word from the sentence.
Ready
She was preparing dinner in an organised manner using well-equipped tools while listening to the radio.
- Preparing
- Listening
- Organised
- Equipped
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Identify how you will ask everyone if the children were not reading the books in passive voice.
- Were the books being read by the children?
- Were the books not being read by the children?
- Were the book not being read by the children?
- Were the children reading the books?
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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Hostile
- Pleasant
- Hospitable
- Empathetic
- Unfriendly
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Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
The fact that God created man in his personal view by giving him an intellectual spirit elevates him above the beasts of the field.
- own glory
- own capacity
- own image
- own idea
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither.
B.I am especially proud of it, not only because it has survived several winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches.
C.The tree had grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house.
D.Last summer, I spent many days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree.
- DCBA
- ABCD
- CDBA
- BDAC
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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
Was the bag packed by Mary?
- Was Mary pack the bag?
- Is Mary packing the bag?
- Do Mary pack the bag?
- Did Mary pack the bag?
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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word ‘Optimistic’ from the given sentence.
After the incident, Radha prepared herself to stay positive even in gloomy days.
- stay
- incident
- positive
- gloomy
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The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
After knowing truth, / the jury took the right decision / in the case.
- The jury took the right decision
- In the case
- After knowing truth
- No error
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In the following sentence, four words are underlined, out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Identify the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
A lot of spontanity is required from the speaker in an extempore speech. The speaker is expected to brainstorm ideas and give speech instantaneously .
- instantaneously
- extempore
- brainstorm
- spontanity
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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A person who believes that laws and governments are not necessary.
- Antagonist
- Antichrist
- Anarchist
- Adversary
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Miss the boat
- Missing a good opportunity
- Missing your medium of travel
- Missing good moments of your life
- Being too late
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